Rogacki delicatessen Made famous outwith Berlin by Anthony Bourdain, Rogacki (pronounced Ro-gatz-ki) is a deli located in Charlottenburg in what was once West Berlin. The …
Food review: Rogacki, Berlin
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Berlin Wall now gone for as long as it stood
Dividing the city of Berlin for 28 years The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years, slicing through the city dividing East from West. Monday 5th …
CLOSED Food Review: Wohlfahrt’s Wirtshaus, Berlin
Discovering Austrian cuisine in Berlin Think of Berlin for food and it’s Turkish pizza, a kebab or maybe currywurst? Delve deeper into the many neighbourhoods …
Travel: Stasi Prison, Berlin
One upon a “crime” in East Berlin Visiting the Stasi prison museum is a stark reminder of the horrors humans inflict upon each other. The …
Intervarko Hostel, Berlin Review
When you think of hostels don’t think of smelly dorms, think of private rooms on a budget! We often stay in private rooms within hostels. …
Berlin Blog Day 4
Our last full day of this quick trip to Berlin. Usually, it’s food first before we get hangry, however on our doorstep was an unusual fountain …
Berlin Blog Day 3
Breakfast today was a highly technological affair at Data Kitchen. The courtyard setting could be a million miles from the busy Hackesher Markt area outside. Inside …
Berlin Blog day 2
Another fresh and bright morning in Berlin. On this trip we stayed in Prenzlauerberg and had breakfast at Cafe Melon beside a tram stop to Alexanderplatz. A …
Berlin Blog Day 1
When you find £20 return flights to your favourite city it’s a no brainer. So off we went to Berlin for our 6th time (though …
Travel: Prora – Hitler’s Butlins on the Baltic Coast
Mein Camp – the Nazi Butlins A few years back on a holiday to Berlin we took the train up to the Hanseatic city of, …
Travel: 24 hours in (East) Berlin
What to see and do in 24 hours in (East) Berlin Could you get the essence of Berlin in 24 hours? It’s a tough call …
Travel to do: Berlin Breweries
Berlin Breweries on a map Visiting Berlin and not trying out at least one of the cities fine craft beers would just be rude, we …
Travel To Do: Gleis 17, Grunewald, Berlin
The dark history of Platform 17 Located in the Grunewald area of Berlin is the railway station Berlin-Grunewald with its castle gate building and forest …
Food Review: Cafe Sibylle, 72 Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany
Classic East Berlin brunch spot to watch the world pass by Open since 1953 this was, and still is, one of Berlin’s most popular cafes. …
Travel To Do: Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm)
A sky-high view of Berlin from the TV Tower The Berlin TV Tower is one of the city’s most famous landmarks — a 368-meter-high needle-like …
ALECSA Hotel am Olympiastadion, Glockenturmstraße 30, 14055 Berlin Review
Budget Hotel in West Berlin We stumbled across the Alecsa Hotal am Olympiastadion whilst looking for somewhere cheap to place our heads. We just needed …
Travel To Do: Stasi Museum, Berlin
The Stasi Museum in the Friedrichshain area of Berlin is worth a visit (indeed is the whole of Friedrichshain!) This building housed The Ministry for …
Travel To Do: BierPinsel, Berlin, Germany
Bierpinsel Berlin Getting off at U9 Schloßstraße station gives you a bit of advance warning of what to expect at Bierpinsel. The garish colour scheme …
Top 5 things to do in Bamberg, Germany
If you like history, and all within walking distance as well as shopping, drinking beer and eating, then Bamberg in Germany is an ideal place …
Food Review: Shiso Burger, 29C August Str, Mitte, Berlin 10119
Take a leaf out of Shiso’s book… Shiso Burger on Auguststrasse in Mitte had been recommended to us so we headed there specifically. Inside it was full …
Food Review: Konnopke’s Imbiss, Schönhauser Allee 44 b, Berlin, Germany
Currywurst under the Bahn A part of Berlin food culture since 1930, Konnopke’s Imbiss is still a Berliner favourite. Everyone and anyone come here for …
Food Review: The Bird, Am Falkplatz. 5, Berlin, Germany
Muffin top at The Bird, Berlin One of the places we had to visit in Berlin was The Bird. It’s listed on every To Do burger …
Holiday Inspiration – Berlin, Germany
Berlin break ideas Now Mrs Foodie loves Berlin a little too much. If only she had stuck in at school and passed that Higher German …
Volkswagen transparent factory ( Gläserne Manufaktur) Dresden, Germany
The transparent factory in Dresden is worth a visit to see the assembly of Volkswagen’s luxury sedan, the Phaeton, and to admire some modern architecture. …